This study represents an internship, as a requirement of the Professional Science
Masters program at Oregon State University, performed with Western Ag
Innovations Inc. The study consisted of two aspects -- one busines ...

The internship I performed was with Rural Community Development Program (RCDP), a domestic non-governmental organization in the country of Nepal. This organization focuses on community development goals in rural communit ...

The Seeds of Success (SOS) is a wildland seed collection program in support of the
interagency Native Plant Materials Development Program (NPMP) and in partnership
with the global conservation initiative, the Millenniu ...

Citizen science (formally public participation in science research) has emerged in recent years as an innovative and interactive tool for engaging many diverse groups in science and research. Defined as the collaboration ...

Oyster reefs provide an array of ecosystem services. Specifically, they provide structurally complex habitat for fish and invertebrate species such as the commercially important Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister. Thi ...

Parkway trees, trees within a designated landscape and often owned by the city, can be an asset to any municipality but also have the potential to be a liability if improperly managed. The many benefits of parkway trees ...

The dream of ubiquitous virtual reality (VR) tools has been a powerful presence in pop culture
since before the turn of the century. But for all of its charm, VR applications are few and far between
due to the high cos ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is the largest developer of wetlands land in the state of Washington. Consequently, they are also the largest wetland mitigation developer in the state. Through v ...

This project addresses the problems of manually placing facial landmarks on a portrait and finding a fast way to warp the annotated image of a face. While there are many approaches to automatically find facial landmarks, ...

The Long Tom Watershed Council (LTWC) is a non-profit organization in Eugene, Oregon that serves to protect and enhance watershed health in the Long Tom River Basin. The Amazon Creek Initiative was launched by the LTWC i ...

The objective of this study was to compile, validate, and map minimum and maximum mean monthly temperature and temperature ranges for periods of 10 to 14 months between July 2009 and June 2012, measured using 16 to 182 s ...

As DNA sequencing technologies continue to advance, resulting in increased throughput and decreased costs, both the number of researchers utilizing these technologies and the quantity of data outputted by a single sequen ...

In August 2011, the final Upper Willamette River basin salmon and steelhead recovery plan was adopted by NOAA Fisheries and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The plan highlights a variety of activities that nee ...

My internship was conducted with the Native Seed Network program within the Institute
for Applied Ecology, a non-profit organization located in Corvallis, whose focus is
education, applied research and active restorati ...